Pidgin Opensuse community Repository only at 2.6.6 and an Error from 2.7.1

[Mark Doliner]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:41 AM, a.dura <a.dura at euroimmun.de> wrote:
> i regulary check the Pigin and Pidgin-Sipe page, and notices that the
> most recent version is 2.7.1.
> The version on my Opensuse system was 2.6.6, since i let "zypper dup"
> run each day, i checked on http://software.opensuse.com/search.
>
> I found that the community repositories have the 2.6.6 as the most
> recent and found some random repository that had 2.7.1.
>
> I installed Pidgin and libpurple 2.7.1 from that repository.
> I tried to start Pidgin and got the following error message:
>
> pidgin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libpurple.so.0: undefined
> symbol: g_malloc0_n
>
> Any idea where the problem lies and when the community repositories are
> going to be updatedt ?

Hi Alexander.  We don't maintain the community repository for
Opensuse.  You may want to try determining who that person is and
contacting them directly.

--Mark